Our next meeting will be held on Friday, March 24 at the Ponderosa fire station. Join us at 6:30 for the fun and educational FYI session and then at 7:30 we will have an exciting presentation by Annie Wargetz who will present We are All Explorers. We have explored the lands of the Earth and are now endeavoring to explore every corner of our solar system. In fact, there are so many currently active missions studying our celestial neighborhood that it’s easy to miss a few updates. We’ll start our journey by talking about those missions and the ones soon-to-come….

Our next meeting will be held on Friday, February 24 at the Ponderosa fire station. Join us at 6:30 for the FYI session which will help you get ready for the annual Messier Marathon and then at 7:30 we will have an exciting presentation by Dr. Andrew Long who will present Dark Matter Demystified. Over the larger part of the last century, a growing body of observational evidence has revealed the presence of a mysterious something in our Universe that pulls on stars and gas and light.  Scientists don’t understand this something, but we give it a name so we…